Cow Pastor: Song Lines of Memory – the A-Line

In or around 1995, the Barbadian poet Kamau Brathwaite (1930-2020) bought a property, which included a three bedroom dwelling, in Christ Church, Barbados, in the vicinity of the international airport. Brathwaite referred to this property as Cow Pastor or Cow Pasture. Shortly after purchase, the Barbadian government informed him he could neither build on nor extend the premises, which included an old slave outbuilding. Among the reasons given was the proposed construction of a road related to the functioning of the airport. In an email dated March 5, 2005,1 which was circulated widely, Brathwaite pleaded his case to the public at large. Within the contents of that letter, which could be better described as a manifesto, he included a 9-point program which set out a two-pronged vision for the property: it was to be his place of residence for himself and his wife where he could collect and store his archives which had been scattered
— Read on alinejournal.com/arts-and-culture/cow-pastor-song-lines-of-memory/

Legal Support | Chuffed | Non-profit charity and social enterprise fundraising

This lawsuit is another thinly veiled attempt to weaponize the legal system to intimidate us into silence and incapacitate any form of resistance against the zionist entity’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. The Amerikkkan bourgeois class and its fascist collaborators have always crafted the law to repress, imprison, and murder anyone deemed an “enemy of the state.”

As absurd as this lawsuit against us may seem at face value, it nonetheless threatens to set a dangerous precedent with regards to First Amendment rights. A defeat in this case risks an even greater expansion of the state’s ability to surveil the movement, financially devastate organizations, and extract information to use against us for further repression.
— Read on chuffed.org/project/193502-legal-support

Campaign: “Loon Loves You” on FreeFunder

Our dear beloved Loon is dead and we’re throwing her a party. She requested not to have a traditional memorial but she always encouraged us to be together. Anyone who knew her knew what it was like to dance and sing and laugh until your face hurt, to have dinner together and read poems aloud and pray and joke at the same time, to happily labor and fight side by side, and now we have to keep doing it.
— Read on www.freefunder.com/campaign/loon-loves-you

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico

A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.
— Read on futurism.com/science-energy/us-military-gps-jamming-signal-medical-flight

Help Devion Continue His Education at JCSU | GiveSendGo

Devion Canty needs your support to continue his college education after being coerced by the administration into withdrawing from Texas State University (TXST) just days into his freshman year.
 
As was widely reported, Devion became the center of a viral harassment campaign after he was singled out for participating in a campus protest against a so-called “memorial” for Charlie Kirk. The video that spread across the internet captured only a few seconds of Devion’s response to the Kirk supporters, while selectively omitting the racist slurs hurled at him and other Black students, along with the violent confrontations that occurred throughout the event. Once the Governor of Texas shared the video on social media and publicly called for Devion’s expulsion, Texas State University administrators escorted him to a police station, where the presence of state-sanctioned violence was used as a backdrop to pressure him into leaving the university.
— Read on www.givesendgo.com/help-devion-continue-his-education

2027 STRIKE! — JLS

Fundamentally, this is a human rights crisis. The United States cages more human beings than any nation on earth. Behind the razors, we are stripped of our humanity, exploited for forced labor, and treated as raw material for state and corporate profit.

Jailhouse Lawyers Speak (JLS), a prisoner human rights organization, calls on all prisoners in federal and state prisons, county jails, and immigration detention to join the National Prisoners’ Human Rights Strike, running nationwide from May 1 (International Workers’ Day) through June 19 (Juneteenth), 2027.
— Read on www.jailhouselawyersspeak.com/new-page

Venezuela: US Court Rules Against Maduro, State Officials, Awards Damages to Former Prisoners – Venezuelanalysis

Acting President Delcy Rodríguez has argued for immunity from civil action given her current head of state position.
— Read on venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuela-us-court-rules-against-maduro-state-officials-awards-damages-to-former-prisoners/

A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance | WIRED

Curry says watching the videos has changed his sense of his own privacy as he walks around an American city—or, at least, San Francisco. “This was the first time I’d seen drones used in a city like this, and looking at these streets, they’re the same streets I walk down when I’m visiting,” he says. “I guess it just makes me feel more observed.”
— Read on d4pgylpvp58cfp.archive.is/